As a music student in college, Paris Smaragdis taught computers how to play more life-like music. Today, the 2006 TR35 winner teaches them how to listen better. We recently talked with him about how--and why--he made that transition. For Smaragdis, machine listening could provide solutions to all sorts of unexpected problems, from security and building engineering to accident investigation.
We named Ling Liao, a senior optical researcher in Intel's Photonics Technology Lab, to our 2006 TR35 list for her work to enable the use of standard silicon in complex optical chips. When we caught up with her recently, she spoke to us about why computers may soon require high-speed optical data transmission. She also took the time to explain why ordinary silicon is the best material for the job, despite its optical restrictions, and how her team is overcoming those limitations.
Sumeet Singh, a technical leader in the applied research and architecture group at Cisco Systems, stopped to chat with us at the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT last week. He explained a bit more about the inspiration behind and inner workings of his system to automatically protect computer networks against viruses.
Hey, I have been working on the computer vaccine for five years. I patented a product called "the Smart Vaccine" which talks about the same thing as Mr. Singh. Will be more than happy to discuss the protype with you. Dr. Rocky Termanini University College of Bahrain Bahrain
Over a 24-year career, Roger McNamee has been one of the most successful investors in Silicon Valley, having made venture investments in Electronic Arts, Flextronics, Intuit, and Rambus, among many others. Then, in 2004, he launched Elevation Partners, a private equity partnership focused on media and entertainment content. Following his interview onstage at this week's Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT, he spoke with us about his much-discussed investment in Forbes and how he hopes that technology will liberate entertainment.
TR35 winner Matthew Herren has a plan for improving education in Africa: beam in textbooks using one-way satellite radio. Technology Review asked him about the status of the project at the Emerging Technology Conference today. Herren explained how he hopes to make the most out of the continent's limited infrastructure resources.
Stephanie Lacour, a research project manager at the University of Cambridge in England, wants to take flexible electronics to the next level, by making them stretchable. Technology Review caught up with Lacour at the Emerging Technology Conference to ask her about the field's potential. In this video clip, Lacour also notes that the impact of her research might not be limited to biology: advertisers could benefit, too.
People attending the Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT this week have a chance to see Motorola's next-generation phone, the KRZR. The company is also showing off some video-blogging software that's still in development.
When Bob Metcalfe talks about the future of the Internet, people take note. He invented Ethernet, the international standard for local-area networking. Technology Review caught up with Metcalfe last night at the opening reception for the Emerging Technologies Conference. He told us why he thinks Internet video could have a positive environmental impact by reducing the need to "press the flesh."
Perio-Imaging Inc. of Delaware was formed in 2004 to launch an ultrasonographic periodontal probe. In this short video clip, the company's vice president and medical director, Fred Lane, describes how the tool works. The company's technology is on display at the Emerging Technologies Conference today and tomorrow.
AOL's Jonathan Miller talked to Technology Review after his keynote address at the Emerging Technologies Conference today. In this vlog, Miller discusses how AOL is positioning video as a key part of its strategy. He also talks about plans for AOL's messaging services.
Amazon.com's founder and chief executive officer Jeffrey Bezos talks about S3, the company's "simple storage service" for data. Bezos spoke earlier today at Technology Review's Emerging Technology Conference about Amazon.com's emerging web services strategy. S3 is an integral part of that plan.
I have always admired Jeff Bezos's focus and energy towards innovation. He's not afraid to take risks and convert ideas into opportunities. This is the main reason why Amazon leads Walmart and all other big retailer in the web world. In the web world, technology innovation has alot more weight than anything else.
Christina Galitsky is Technology Review's 2006 Humanitarian of the Year and one of this year's TR35. The Lawrence Berkeley Lab scientist employs her training in chemical engineering to find solutions to environmental problems in the U.S. and abroad--particularly in poor countries such as Sudan and Bangladesh. She spoke to us recently about how seeing her innovations in action inspires her and what kinds of problems she hopes to work on in the future.
Technology Review's editors think Joshua Schachter's website, del.icio.us, is so cool, so useful, so ubiquitous that we named this TR35 winner our 2006 Innovator of the Year. Yahoo acquired del.icio.us last December, and the site has continued its phenomenal growth since then. Schachter talked to us late this summer about how his own memory influenced the development of del.icio.us and how it affects the way he innovates.
For Marin Soljacic, a large part of the fun of innovation comes from working in a relatively new field: photonics. A member of this year's TR35, the MIT physicist builds theoretical models of tiny structures called photonic crystals. Recently, he spoke with us about the excitement of working in a field where theory and application are intertwined--and let us in on why he thinks photonic crystals could finally enable optical information-processing to make the transition from theory to practice.
Prithwish Basu has been interested in how people use technology to communicate since he was an undergrad at the Indian Institute of Technology in Delhi. Since then, the 2006 TR35 winner has networked everything from robots to parking meters. Basu recently gave us a primer on his specialty: "ad hoc" networks--robust, low-power wireless networks that don't require a base station. He talked us through what these networks are, roughly how they work, and some of the applications they're best suited for.
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